Need a change of scenery? If you’re waiting for a sign, here it is: a Mississippi city will pay you $6,000 to pick up and move there for a year. The city of Natchez is calling on remote workers across the country to relocate to their “charming and historic community” for one year through a […]
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Enjoying more free time while working from home? Maybe not. New research conducted during the pandemic shows that home-working employees in the United Kingdom, Austria, Canada and the United States are putting in more hours than before. Home working has led to a 2.5-hour increase in the average working day in those countries, said NordVPN Teams, a […]
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Monday began the week of national Technician Appreciation Week and the county is reaching out for new technicians. The county of Riverside is looking to add eligibility technicians to assist residents in need. An eligibility tech is someone who works to improve the lives of others by helping community members access health and human services […]
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Millions of Americans again filed for unemployment benefits last week, as the coronavirus recession drags on. Another 1.9 million workers filed for initial unemployment aid last week, according to the US Department of Labor. More than a quarter of the labor force — 42.6 million people — has now claimed […]
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RIVERSIDE (CNS) – The unemployment rate in Riverside County shot above 5% last month — for the first time in over two years — amid layoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic, figures released Friday show. The region’s jobless rate in March, based on preliminary estimates, was 5.3%, compared to 4.1% in February, according to the […]
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Around 300,000 nonessential workers are estimated to have gone back to their jobs in Spain’s Madrid region on Monday as the country began a partial lifting of lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, a spokesperson for Madrid’s regional government told CNN. As Spain enters its second month of lockdown, some restrictions were eased, allowing those […]
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Jemel Roberson couldn’t wait for his son’s first Christmas. With a 9-month-old boy and another baby on the way, the 26-year-old security guard was working extra shifts to buy gifts for his son and his child’s mother, family attorney Lee Merritt said. During one of his shifts last weekend, a gunman started shooting up Manny’s […]
